Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the addition of four attorneys to the firm’s Intellectual Property Group to grow its work in the generic pharmaceutical patent arena. The team includes partner Mark T. Jansen of San Francisco and partner Cedric C.Y. Tan, senior counsel Neil M. McCarthy, and counsel Kristin M. Cooklin of Washington, D.C. The highly esteemed team of litigators and IP counselors join from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, with the exception of McCarthy, who joins from private practice. All were formerly attorneys at Townsend and Townsend and Crew.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that it has named Dwight N. Mersereau as a partner in its U.S. and International Tax practice group, based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office.  A prominent Washington tax practitioner, Mr. Mersereau has served inside the Internal Revenue Service and has been involved in shaping tax policy through legislation, U.S. Department of the Treasury regulation projects, revenue rulings, and private letter rulings  He joins the Firm from the Washington office of Miller Chevalier.

Karen Gaunt, a standout in the legal community and formerly with Wood, Herron & Roberts, L.L.P., has joined Dinsmore’s Cincinnati office as a partner and as the Director of the firm’s Trademark, Copyright and Brand Strategies Group. She joins the firm’s expanding worldwide intellectual property (IP) practice, which includes more than 40 full-time IP attorneys (and more than 30 registered patent attorneys) with substantial experience in all areas of intellectual property law.